Collateral management is under pressure: rising capital costs, expanding... margin requirements, fragmented infrastructure. Slow settlement forces firms to over-collateralise, holding buffer to cover the days a trade takes to settle. Near-instant settlement closes that gap. The tech works, but the challenge now is scaling from pilots to production. Download this whitepaper to learn more: #ProgrammableSettlement #CollateralManagement #CapitalMarketsshow more

Collateral management is under pressure. Capital sits trapped in... silos, settlement failures are rising, and operations teams spend more time managing process noise than managing risk. Tokenisation fixes the core problem. When assets settle in hours, firms hold less collateral, move faster, and free up capital that could be put to work elsewhere. The technology is proven and the regulatory path is clearing. The gap now is operational, getting from pilot to production. Our new whitepaper sets out exactly how to close it: #CollateralManagement #CollateralMobility #Tokenisation #CapitalMarketsshow more

Near real-time collateral mobility could help financial institutions reduce... liquidity buffers and lower capital requirements, but only with infrastructure built to support it. Our new white paper, Collateral Infrastructure for Tokenized Capital Markets, developed in collaboration with Finadium, makes the case that tokenized collateral could help unlock significant capital efficiencies, transform liquidity management and potentially benefit early movers as settlement cycles shorten and digital assets adoption accelerates. Read the announcement:show more

Working capital is central to business growth, but it’s... too often managed in fragmented systems that make it harder to see the full picture, let alone act on it. Today, J.P. Morgan Payments is introducing the Working Capital Accelerator, a platform that centralizes Trade & Working Capital solutions in one unified experience. Learn more:show more

🚨 Jerome Powell Had CONFIRMED IT: America Is About... to Get a Brand-New Instant Settlement Payment System “We’re also investing heavily right now in building a new SETTLEMENT SYSTEM for instant payments in the US.” He didn’t say the word… because he couldn’t. But let’s be real, the evidence is screaming: ✅ Instant settlement ✅ Cross-border ready ✅ Zero intermediaries ✅ Already battle-tested by central banks worldwide ✅ The exact tech Ripple has been building - The XRP Ledger This is XRP being quietly installed as the backbone of America’s money rails. Earlier, even President Trump openly said that the crypto market bill will upgrade the banking and financial system to 21st century using blockchain technology. The “new settlement system” is the code word. We are so early it’s actually illegal.show more

🚨 CHINA IS BUILDING THE FOUNDATION FOR A NEW... GOLD-BASED FINANCIAL ORDER. At today’s BRICS summit in India, Xi Jinping announced that China will take the presidency and open a third “GOLDEN DECADE.” That wording matters because it comes while China has been buying gold for 22 straight months, Hong Kong has launched a government-backed gold clearing system linked to Shanghai, and Beijing is pushing the yuan deeper into global trade and settlement. At the same time, BRICS countries are expanding alternative payment infrastructure designed to reduce dependence on SWIFT and the dollar system, while China has dumped roughly $70 BILLION in U.S. Treasuries in one of its biggest sell-offs since the financial crisis. THIS IS NOT RANDOM RESERVE MANAGEMENT. China is buying more gold, holding fewer Treasuries, expanding yuan settlement, and building the infrastructure for a more independent financial system. They do not need to announce that they are replacing the dollar tomorrow. The strategy is already visible in what they are building. THE GOLD IS BEING STACKED, THE TREASURIES ARE BEING SOLD, AND THE YUAN IS MOVING DEEPER INTO GLOBAL TRADE. This is how a monetary system starts to change: not with one announcement, but with a parallel system being built underneath the old one!👀show more

Russian Sources are reporting that a Major Assault by... the Ukrainian Armed Forces equipped with Western Equipment is ongoing near the Settlement of Robotyne on the “Zaporizhzhia” Frontline with at least 83 Pieces of Armor said to have been Committed to the Attack; the Buildup for this Attack near Orikhiv is claimed to have been Observed earlier today by a Russian Drone equipped with FLIR Camera.show more

🚨 AUGUST 1ST – REAL TOKEN EXCHANGE LISTING (XRPL)... RealFi is proud to announce another major centralized exchange listing for the REAL Token, scheduled for August 1st. Built on the XRP Ledger, REAL Token powers the entire RealFi ecosystem, supporting transactions, rewards, and instant settlement. RealFi is focused on expanding within the Payment Rewards and Asset industries, representing a market opportunity of approximately $4.1 trillion. The RealFi payment infrastructure utilizes REAL Token as its underlying blockchain technology, enabling instant settlement and innovative payment and rewards solutions. Through this infrastructure, businesses can deliver seamless customer incentives, faster transactions, and enhanced engagement on a global scale. Learn more about RealFi & Real Token atshow more

Target locations are beginning to charge customers the “merchant... fee” on every item they purchase This is the cost of credit and debit card processing fees Big box retails like Target have paid these fees in the past but has decided to now pass the cost onto the customer There was a major legal change with the ‘2025 Visa Mastercard interchange fee antitrust settlement with merchants’ This settlement gave retailers more legal leeway to stop fully absorbing fees and start passing some costs to card users American keep getting robbed blindshow more

🚨 Fed Chair Warsh Says He’s “Not Waiting” To... Introduce Innovation At The Federal Reserve. This comes after the Chinese hacked into the Federal Reserve systems. Ask yourself why a brand-new Chair would say that at Jackson Hole of all places. The plumbing is already built. Ripple has been stress-testing the rails for years. ISO 20022. ODL. Instant settlement. The Fed doesn’t need to invent a new network from scratch, they just need to flip the switch. Don’t be surprised if Ripple gets the Fed Master Account approval and performs FedNow payments and operations. JP Morgan already connected the XRP Ledger to Interbank Settlement with Ripple, Ondo and Mastercard. They waited until the Chair changed. Now the language shifted from “study” to “not waiting.” XRP isn’t a retail coin. It’s the settlement layer they already know works. That’s why there is abundant evidence that XRP was never meant for retail. Stack accordingly. The delay was never technical. It was political. That’s over.show more

Commissioner Mo Ivory: Fulton County is right now the... target, the only county right now fighting over an election that already happened. But it is coming to a place near you. This is the beginning of the chaos of 2026 that is about to ensue.show more

I’m delighted to announce that Quant and Murex are... partnering to bring tokenised deposits and digital bond settlement into MX.3. Institutions have been asking the same question. How do we move forward with tokenisation without disrupting the trading, risk and post-trade operations we depend on? The answer is now inside the platform they already use. Tokenised RWAs just crossed $100 billion. DTCC has SEC approval to tokenise real-world assets from mid-2026 and major UK banks are already working with Quant through the Great Britain Tokenised Deposit initiative - all of which signals that the market is moving. Users in banks, asset managers, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, corporations and energy utilities in over 65 countries now have a production-ready path into tokenisation through the systems they already run. The future of capital markets infrastructure is programmable: #Tokenisation #DigitalAssets #CapitalMarkets #Programmabilityshow more

Many people don’t know this, but before construction of... the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway began, a new Makoko-like settlement had already started forming along that corridor. The highway construction cleared that entire stretch, opening it up to what is now a beachfront. Some of the people still left are the ones seen around the coastal highway at night. If enforcement is not sustained, there’s a real risk of regrouping and the emergence of another informal settlement. The entire stretch now protected by shoreline works behind Orchid Road was once their settlement, as shown in the first video.show more

💳 Traditional card payments: Settlement in 2–3 days. 2–3%... fee split between card network, issuing bank, acquiring bank, and PG — none of whom are the merchant. Merchant sees the money on Tuesday. ⚡ KONET stablecoin payments: Settlement at the moment of transaction. Near-zero network cost. On-chain receipt issued instantly. The technology isn't the hard part. The hard part is building compliant infrastructure that connects to existing merchant networks. That's what KONET is. Not a product. Infrastructure. 🏗️ #KONET #Web3 #PaymentInfrastructureshow more

For anyone travelling from Chennai to Trichy, Madurai or... the southern districts, the next three months are going to be a nightmare. Maintenance work on the Cauvery bridge near Odathurai, Trichy has brought traffic to a crawl. It now takes over an hour to cover just 2 km and that’s before even reaching the bridge. The bigger question is why do highway authorities begin such massive maintenance works without planning proper alternate routes ? The public is paying the price for poor planning.show more

A traveler taps her card at a market thousands... of miles from home. The payment feels instant, simple, straightforward. It’s not. Behind that tap, money may need to move across currencies, banks, payment providers, and borders. Traditional systems often require companies to park funds in local accounts before they are needed, leaving capital stagnant for long periods of time where it’s not able to earn a return or be put to work. Members of the Avalanche Payments Collective are building a more efficient global payments model, one that keeps capital productive up until the moment it needs to move. Here are five members working across different parts of cross-border payments and treasury infrastructure: Axiym provides payment and treasury infrastructure that helps institutions route liquidity and settle transactions without pre-funding every market. Its technology supported Hyundai Motor America’s stablecoin payment to its Mexico affiliate, completed on Avalanche in minutes instead of days. Nonco helps institutions exchange currencies and stablecoins by requesting prices directly from a network of professional liquidity providers. That gives them access to more competitive rates while allowing both sides of the transaction to settle together onchain. SMBC, Japan’s second-largest bank, is exploring stablecoin infrastructure for wholesale institutional payments. It is also working alongside MUFG and Mizuho on a potential yen-pegged stablecoin initiative built on Avalanche. StraitsX is working with KBank through Project BLOOM to develop payment infrastructure that can improve settlement across Southeast Asian corridors where moving money remains particularly slow and expensive. AeraTech helps multinational companies manage cash across subsidiaries, offset internal obligations, and settle inter-company payments without unnecessarily routing every transaction through external banks. These different companies all represent or engage with different parts of the payment and treasury stack. But they all have a shared goal: keep capital working longer, move it when it is needed, and make cross-border payments faster and more efficient. That is what the Avalanche Payments Collective is bringing together. Frictionless, borderless payments that really are instant, simple, and straightforward.show more

⚡️🚨 Another view from the massive strikes on southern... Lebanon Preliminary reports suggest that the targets are facilities related to reconstruction : asphalt plant, quarry, concrete plant, diesel storage tanks. This is the continuation of the strikes from a few days ago that destroyed 300 bulldozers and bobcats. Israel is turning southern Lebanon into a deadzone in order to depopulatr in preparation for future occupation and settlement.show more

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